Talks fail to produce consensus on cluster bombs

Dec. 5, 2011
Efforts to ban cluster bombs have been in the works for years. Just last week, the international community considered a new proposal at the Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva.

In Laos, American Vietnam-era cluster bombs still pose grave threat

Dec. 5, 2011
In Laos, unexploded cluster bombs dropped by the U.S. during the Vietnam War still pose real danger to civilians, including children and poor farmers.Titus Peachey is director of peace education for the Mennonite Central Committee. He's worked extensively in Laos to help villagers remove U.S.

Worldview 12.5.11

Dec. 5, 2011
Hillary Clinton’s recent visit to Burma, one of most repressive countries in the world, was the first by a U.S. secretary of state since 1955. Worldview explores the improvement in U.S.–Burma relations with Maureen Aung-Thwin, director of the Burma Project at the Open Society Institute.